Το βιβλίο αυτό πραγματεύεται ζητήματα όπως η ενεργειακή κρίση, ο
πράσινος καπιταλισμός, η ταξική πάλη και περιγράφει απαντήσεις των
αντιστάσεων στον τομέα της ενέργειας με συγγραφείς από κινήματα από όλο
τον κόσμο. Εκδόθηκε από την αντιεξουσιαστική εκδοτική κολεκτίβα AK press
τον Ιούλιο του 2010.
“ Ξεσκεπάζει τους φαινομενικά αθώους όρους “ενεργειακός τομέας” και
“ενεργειακό σύστημα” θέτωντας την παρούσα ενεργειακή κρίση, την
πετρελαϊκή κρίση και την μετάβαση στην μετά-το-πετρέλαιο-εποχή σε μία
ιστορική κατανόηση των παγκόσμιων κοινωνικών, οικονομικών, πολιτικών,
στρατιωτικών και οικολογικών σχέσεων των οποίων η ενέργεια και η
τεχνολογία αποτελούν κομμάτι. Οι συγγραφείς εξετάζουν τις συστημικές
σχέσεις μεταξύ παραγωγής-κατανάλωσης ενέργειας και του παγκόσμιου
καταμερισμού εργασίας στον οποίο βασίζεται ο ίδιος ο καπιταλισμός, τις
συγκρούσεις, τις ιεραρχίες και την κρίση του καθώς και τους ταξικούς αγώνες.
Με πάνω από 50 κεφάλαια και συγγραφείς από 20 χώρες το βιβλίο αυτό
αποτελεί έναν συλλογικό χάρτη των πιο δυναμικών αγώνων στον ενεργειακό
τομέα.”
Μπορείτε να προμηθευτείτε το βιβλίο από την ιστοσελίδα της AK Press:
http://www.akpress.org/2009/items/sparkingaworldwideenergyrevolution
Το βιβλίο περιέχει επίσης κείμενο της συλλογικότητας Farma με τίτλο: “Charging the
resistance with renewable energy sources: A solidarity project with the
Zapatista Communities and DIY Wind Generators for Autonomous Spaces” το
οποίο γράφτηκε τον Νοέμβριο του 2008.
https://farmazapatista.espivblogs.net/2006/03/07/charging-resistance/
“A vital anthology for anyone who wants to understand both the roots of
the energy crisis, and the flourishing radical resistance that offers a
sustainable future beyond capitalism.”—Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and
Starved
“Gas flaring in Nigeria, wind farms in Schleswig-Holstein, mountain top
removal in Appalachia, tar sands in Alberta, geothermal energy in Iceland,
the toxic cycle of uranium, the slaughter in the coal-mines of China, the
transgenic soya monocultures, the ‘caliph’ of oil in Iraq, jatropha
production in Tanzania, exploration in the Tehuantepec winds: every power
under the sun is here except horse-power, and everywhere on earth—China,
Europe, North America, the Mideast, Africa, India, and Latin America.Ê
Kolya Abramsky has composed, a symphonic compendium of five sections,
fourteen parts, sixty chapters by forty-six individual authors and
eighteen organizational authors in nearly seven hundred pages all arranged
with intelligence and point. There are no technofixes.Ê Neither ‘clean’
energy nor ‘green’ capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans,
health, and lives.Ê Neither governments nor corporations nor ‘the market’
can bring us out of the nether world they themselves have created. Mother
Earth calls to the grass-roots for entirely new social relations, human
and less hellish.Ê This sober and serious book heeds that call.”—Peter
Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for
All.
“Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution” is a major contribution to the
movement working for a transition from carbon capitalism to an
ecologically sound energy system. Its sixty chapters document the present
energy crisis, describe alternative technologies, and introduces us to the
people who worldwide are fighting for a healthy planet and the recreation
of the earth’s commons.Ê Rich in detail and written by activists and
scholars who have taken part in the struggles, Sparking is an
indispensable volume for the just energy transition movement. It will be
referred to for years to come.”—Sylvia Federici, author of Caliban and the
Witch
As the world’s energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a
global struggle over who controls the sector?and for what purposes?is
intensifying. The question of “green capitalism” is now unavoidable, for
capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all sides we
hear that it’s time to save the planet in order to save the economy, but
in reality what lies before us is the next round of global class struggle
with energy at the center, as the key means of production and subsistence.
There are no easy answers in this battle for control of the world’s energy
system. Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution is not a book of sound
bites. It unpacks the seemingly innocent terms “energy sector” and “energy
system” by situating the current energy crisis, peak oil, and the
transition to a post-petrol future within a historical understanding of
the global, social, economic, political, financial, military, and
ecological relations of which energy and technology are parts. The authors
probe the systemic relationships between energy production and consumption
and the worldwide division of labor on which capitalism itself is
based?its conflicts and hierarchies, its crisis and class struggles.
With over fifty chapters written by contributors from approximately twenty
countries, Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution forms a collective map
of the most dynamic struggles within the energy sector.
Kolya Abramsky is a former visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced
Studies in Science, Technology and Society, in Graz, Austria, where he
received the Manfred-Heindler Award for Energy and Climate Change
Research, and in 2006 was coordinator of the Danish-based World Wind
Energy Institute, an international effort in non-commercial renewable
energy education, involving different renewable energy centers from around
the world
Μία εκτενής βιβλιοκριτική βρίσκεται στη σελίδα:
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/sparking-a-worldwide-energy-revolution-book-review/
Συλλογικότητα Farma
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